Agroforestry

Why is it important?

After a century of continuous progress made by intensive farming in developed countries, output is stagnating and biodiversity is becoming worryingly impoverished. Agroforestry, which consists in integrating trees into agricultural farming systems, could provide a fair answer to this situation.

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While modern agroforestry systems have been developed over the past 20 years, research on the subject remains underdeveloped in France. Traditional know-how has been partially lost and basic knowledge is still fragmented. The Fondation de France awards subsidies to encourage students to discover or expand this field of research as part of a high performance team working on these questions.